{"id":338285,"date":"2026-04-27T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/who-is-chris-harborne-the-man-bankrolling-farage-and-reform-uk\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T12:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:00:27","slug":"who-is-chris-harborne-the-man-bankrolling-farage-and-reform-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/who-is-chris-harborne-the-man-bankrolling-farage-and-reform-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Chris Harborne? The man bankrolling Farage and Reform UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/k4txIXd6EZA\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Who is Chris Harborne? The man bankrolling Farage and Reform UK\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k4txIXd6EZA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigel is mad to accept his money\u201d \u2013 those were the words of the Conservative peer Emma Nicholson to the Guardian investigations correspondent Tom Burgis over a slice of cake in the House of Lords. She was talking about Christopher Harborne, a crypto-tycoon bankrolling Farage\u2019s Reform UK party.<br \/>\n\u200cSubscribe \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>The mysterious billionaire has donated more than \u00a322m to Farage\u2019s rightwing party over the past seven years, accounting for two-thirds of all funding received by Reform UK, previously called the Brexit party.<br \/>\n\u200c<br \/>\nAsked last December about the issue, Farage said Harborne wanted \u201cabsolutely nothing in return at all\u201d for his donations. However, Farage has championed cryptocurrency, saying London \u201cshould become a global trading centre for this stuff\u201d.<br \/>\n\u200c<br \/>\nHarborne is, his lawyers say, an \u201cintensely private person\u201d but a months-long investigation by the Guardian can reveal much more about his background and possible motivations than previously reported.<br \/>\n\u200c<br \/>\nIn this video, Burgis highlights key parts of his reporting \u25ba https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/apr\/25\/christopher-harborne-mystery-billionaire-bankrolling-reform-uk-nigel-farage<\/p>\n<p>#nigelfarage #reformuk #reform #christopherharborne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNigel is mad to accept his money\u201d \u2013 those were the words of the Conservative peer Emma Nicholson to the Guardian investigations correspondent Tom Burgis over a slice of cake in the House of Lords. She was talking about Christopher Harborne, a crypto-tycoon bankrolling Farage\u2019s Reform UK party. \u200cSubscribe \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1 The mysterious billionaire has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128995],"tags":[139216,130767,128964],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-338285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guardian-news","tag-accept","tag-money","tag-nigel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Who is Chris Harborne? The man bankrolling Farage and Reform UK | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Who is Chris Harborne? 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